Bottle.



E. C. ROYER.

BOTTLE. APPLICATION FILED sEPT.15,19oa.

Patented Api. 27, 1909.

attenua! UNTTED sTATEs PATENT oEEicE;

EDWIN .0. ROYER, OF COLWYN, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 27, 1909.

.Application led September' 15, 1908. Serial No. 453,070.

Be it known that I, EDWIN C. RoYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Colwyn, vin the county of Delaware Pennsylvania, have invented' certain new and useful Improvements in Bottles, of

"which the following is a specification.

'tle having a'rounded bottom, thus preventing it from being stood u on its bottom, having flat side upon whic it may be laid when full, and having the neck thereof perfectl smooth and without the usual outwar ly extending flange, thus preventing a cord being tiedl around the-neck of the bottle l and the bottle hung up.

.the whole length of the bottle.

.flattened portion B. The upper en 1 D ort nec c as,

My invention is particularly a plicable to milk bottles, and such a bottle I ave shown in the accompanying drawings wherein- Figui-ei,- is a perspective View. Fig. 2, is a section on line T-n5 of Fig. 1A. Fig. 3, is a fragmentary vertical section of the upper end ofv the bottle with the sto per in place.

A designates a bottle o the class described cylindrical in general form, but provided with a flattened portion B upon one of its sides, this flattened portion extending nearly The bottom of the bottle 1s rounded as at C so that it is impossible t'o stand the bottle upon its bottom, Vthus compelling it to bey laid upon the of the bottle is extended to form a s isusual on milk bottles, which is provided with the inwardly rojecting flange d. .The exterior of the nec is entirely smooth and there is no outwardly rejecting flange such as is usual to Eractica ly all bottles.- Thus a cord cannot and State of' e attached around the neck of the bottle and the bottle suspended as there is no shoulder for the cord to bind` against. While I have shown a rounded bottom I do not wish to be limited thereto as a cone-shaped form would be equally good. ln other respects than these before described the bottle is of any ordinary or'ususl construction and may be used in any desir-el manner. by means of the ordinary cardboard cap such as is used upon milk bottles. the bottle is filled is forced downward within The bottle is intended to be sealed This cap after the neck and into contact with the flange d. 7

As the interior surface of the neck above the flange d curves in very slightly, and as the stopper is forced down below this inwardly curved portion and against the flange, it cannot he forced out except by the use of some 'instrument inserted between the neck and the stopper.A ,The insertion of an instrument for withdrawing the stopper' will tend to Adamage the same bending up the edge of the disk, hence after once tliest'opper has. been withdrawn, it willv no longer close the bottle tightly. This would make very little difference if the bottle could be stood upon its end, but inasmuch as it has to be laid upon its -side a damaged stopper will not suflice to close the bottle or prevent leakage of the milk contained therein.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as newr and desire to secure by Let-v ters Patent is:

A bottle having a flat side, a rounded closed end, and an open end, the s.'.d open end smaller than the main portion of the b'ottle, the wall of the bottlegradually tapering.

and said bottle wall, except at the flattened sidc, curved coneentrically with the longitu` dinal axis of the bottle throughout the entire lengththereof. y

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to-'this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWIN C. ROYER..

Witnesses SAMUEL L. VVOOLFORD,-

ROBERT BRoBsoN.

from said open end to the body of the bottle 

